FreeNAS on VMWare

[bolcsa]

Hello Everybody!
I'm installed the freeNas on vmware esxi 6.5 with one system and one data disk.

The HW is one dell PowerEdge T420 with 6 HDD in RAID5 (HW raid controlling).

If one HDD fall out from the raid, the installed freeNas will be see this error? Or I will see any error in freeNAS?

After the error I normaly chang the hdd, and wait for the rebuild the array.
The freeNAS will until the rebuild normaly work ?

Thanks.

 

[sretalla]

6 HDD in RAID5 (HW raid controlling).

This is certainly not how to have success with FreeNAS.

If one HDD fall out from the raid, the installed freeNas will be see this error? Or I will see any error in freeNAS?

You may see nothing, you may see that the pool becomes corrupt or is just lost. This is exactly why you don't use Hardware RAID with FreeNAS.

What's all the noise about HBA's, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

This is relevant to FreeNAS and TrueNAS CORE. Some parts of it might also be relevant to Scale, but I don't really know how reliable the Linux drivers are. 1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with...

www.truenas.com

Get yourself an HBA and read this article about how to ensure it will play well with FreeNAS on ESXi:

"Absolutely must virtualize FreeNAS!" ... a guide to not completely losing your data.

[---- 2018/02/27: This is still as relevant as ever. As PCIe-Passthru has matured, fewer problems are reported. I've updated some specific things known to be problematic ----] [---- 2014/12/24: Note, there is another post discussing how to deploy a small FreeNAS VM instance for basic file...

www.truenas.com

 

[bolcsa]

Hi @sretalla,
thanks for the quick response!
In this case, I search for another NAS solution, what is good for my infrastructure :)
br
Andy